Don' t Box Me In: Dynamic Cultural Adaptation and Cognitive Tracking for Social Understanding

2026-08-23

AI Summary

本文提出DyCAC框架，通过动态文化适应和认知跟踪解决多文化环境中社交理解问题，提升模型在多文化背景下的适应性和社交智能。

Abstract

Social interaction increasingly takes place in multicultural settings, where individuals may draw on multiple cultural influences and adapt their communicative behavior across contexts. Despite recent advances in equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with social understanding capabilities, existing approaches often model culture as a static demographic attribute, limiting their ability to accommodate hybrid and dynamically expressed communicative preferences. Therefore, in this paper, we propose \textbf{DyCAC}, a training-free framework that achieves fluid social alignment by incorporating \underline{Dy}namic \underline{C}ultural \underline{A}daptation with continuous \underline{C}ognitive tracking. Rather than inferring a fixed cultural identity, DyCAC models culturally relevant communicative preferences as a time-varying mixture of population-level cultural reference profiles. This reference-based representation is further calibrated using dialogue-style signals observed in the ongoing interaction, enabling the model to capture both composite cultural influences and turn-level shifts in communicative behavior. In parallel, a memory module driven by Theory of Mind (ToM) continuously tracks the cognitive states of the interlocutor. Extensive experiments on interactive social and cultural benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our approach. The proposed framework outperforms existing baselines, exhibiting enhanced social intelligence and broad adaptability across varied multicultural contexts.

Problem

• Dynamic Cultural Adaptation
• Social Understanding
• Large Language Models
• Cognitive Tracking
• Multicultural Settings

Innovation

• Dynamic Cultural Adaptation
• Cognitive Tracking
• Theory of Mind
• Social Intelligence